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Preview Button

When you do things like add images to articles, use the preview button to make sure they show up right before you save the changes. In fact, you should use the preview button to preview most of the changes you make, just so you won't have to change them more later. The fewer edits we make, the less stress on the server. --Martonimos((Argh|Blargh)) 07:49, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

That is the best way to explain!!! Pokemonboy 08:52, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Anyway, thanks for uploading those card images. Here's hoping you can keep it up. --Martonimos((Argh|Blargh)) 09:01, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I think they'd look nicer in a different format, though. GIF or PNG, maybe? I dunno. I know next to nothing about these things. --Martonimos((Argh|Blargh)) 19:58, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I know some are better than the ones we have, but that is why I am trying to upload new ones of the crappy ones that people upload. I wish we had a quality standard for them. And cards should NEVER be in gif. only in png or sometimes in jpg if nothing else is better. MoldyOrange 20:07, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

And should be categorized. I'm gonna have fun doing all of these... Cipher 20:39, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

So

While I can understand you adding those images to Groudon an Kyogre's pages, you really ought to work on them a little first. Screenshots like that should almost always be PNGs, as that has the best quality for sprites and such. The JPG of Groudon, especially, was pretty bad. Also, don't put them in the "game locations" section, or any other section with a table of data, as that puts the table off-center and makes everything look weird. --((Martonimos)) 11:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me

Yes, please stop. There is a standard for the Pokémon card images, and the ones you are uploading are extremely below the line. This is going to cause a lot of clean up for me in the upcoming month. MoldyOrange 13:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Quality control. If you aren't going to upload images better than that, you won't be uploading any at all. MoldyOrange 01:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)